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- Approaching the royal couple’s open car, he shot both Franz Ferdinand and Sophie with a Browning pistol. The driver of the couple’s car then sped off for medical help. Sophie died en route and Franz Ferdinand died shortly after. Princip tried to shoot himself but was apprehended by bystanders.
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1 day ago · The assassin stepped up to the footboard of the car, and shot Franz Ferdinand and Sophie at point‐blank range using a Belgian-made Fabrique Nationale model 1910.380 caliber pistol. Pistol serial numbers 19074, 19075, 19120 and 19126 were supplied to the assassins; Princip used #19074. [97]
- 28 June 1914; 109 years ago
Apr 24, 2024 · Čabrinović threw a bomb that bounced off the archduke’s car and exploded beneath the next vehicle. A short time later, while driving to a hospital to visit an officer wounded by the bomb, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were shot to death by Princip, who said he had aimed not at the duchess but at Gen. Oskar Potiorek, military governor of Bosnia.
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Apr 19, 2024 · June 28, 1914. It is a historically accepted fact that the immediate flash-point that caused the First World War was the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo. This event set into motion a collision of the leading European states at the time and resulted in the catastrophe known as the Great War.
Apr 13, 2024 · ‘What kind of devotion is this?’ Snapped Franz Ferdinand. In the end, Sophie subtly calmed him down with a whisper in his ear and a light touch on his arm. Farcically, the Mayor resumed his spiel about Sarajevo’s love for the Archduke and Franz Ferdinand replied using a blood-spattered speech, thanking the city for an excellent reception.
- Alex Churchill
4 days ago · Later that morning, Gavrilo Princip managed to shoot and kill Franz Ferdinand and Sophie as they drove back to visit the wounded in the hospital. Čabrinović and Princip took cyanide, but it only sickened them. Both were arrested. Within 45 minutes of the shooting, Princip began telling his story to interrogators.
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